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Informationen zum Autor Jill Leonard is a New York City-based writer. Klappentext The inspiring story of a young Swedish schoolgirl who sparked a worldwide revolution, told in a new Who HQ NOW format for trending topics. When she was just fifteen years old, Greta Thunberg knew she wanted to change the world. With a hand-painted sign that read "School strike for the climate" in Swedish, Greta sat alone on the steps of the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on climate change. Her one-person strike would soon spark a worldwide movement. This exciting story details the defining moments in Greta's childhood that led up to her now-famous strike and all the monumental ones that have fueled her revolution since, including being named Time 's Most Influential Person of the Year in 2019. Leseprobe Who Is Greta Thunberg? On August 20, 2018, a Monday morning in Stockholm, Sweden, a girl in a blue hoodie and yellow raincoat hopped on her bike and rode from her home to the Swedish parliament building—-the meeting place of the country’s government. She was barely five feet tall and wore her hair in two long braids. Her name was Greta Thunberg. She was fifteen years old, and she was skipping school. Was she doing it for fun? No. Just the opposite. She had a very serious purpose. She was going to the government building to protest what she saw as a deadly climate crisis. A few months before, a newspaper had run an essay she wrote about her fears for the environment. “I want to feel safe,” she wrote. “How can I feel safe when I know we are in the greatest crisis in human history?” So, she decided to take action. Greta brought a hundred flyers to give out to people. She also had a wooden sign that her father had helped her make. It was painted white and in large black letters, the message in Swedish read: “School Strike for Climate.” Her strike meant that, in protest, she refused to go to school. This was the very first day of her strike. Greta sat against a wall of the parliament building. She had tried to convince other young people she knew to join her. But nobody had. Greta was on her own. All day long, people passed by her. If they noticed her sign, they didn’t ask about it. Nobody took a flyer, either. The next day, however, there she was. Back at the same spot. For a while, a young man talked to her about her protest. He gave her a piece of chocolate, which Greta appreciated. But no crowd joined her. Like so many teenagers born in the twenty--first century, Greta understood the power of social media. She posted a photo of herself holding her sign on Instagram and Twitter. She contacted a few Swedish newspapers to tell them about her strike to call attention to climate change. Sure enough, a couple of local papers sent reporters. After that, Greta’s strike started to grow. More and more young people joined Greta at the parliament building. Like her, they wanted the Swedish government to take action by passing laws that would help reverse global warming. The planet needed saving. It was Greta’s belief that grown--ups were the problem. They weren’t doing what was necessary to save the planet. Young people needed to make them see that. Or else, what kind of future would they have? Chapter 1 How It All Began Greta Thunberg (say: TOON--berg) seemed to have everything a child could want in life. She had loving and creative parents. Her mother, Malena Ernman, was a well--known opera singer. Her father, Svante (say: SVAN--tay), was a writer and actor. Her little sister, Beata, was three years younger and looked up to Greta. And then there was Moses, Greta’s adored golden retriever, and later on, a rescue dog named Roxy. The family lived in a large house at the top of a hill in the beautiful city of Stockholm. Whenever the Thu...
